Eugene Colter is TIAA’s Chief Communications Officer. He leads corporate, investment, executive and issues-management communications and media relations across TIAA, TIAA Bank and Nuveen. He also provides strategic messaging, counsel and strategy to the Executive Committee and to business, distribution, product and investments leadership and the company’s boards. He is a management representative to the TIAA Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility Committee. Previously, Eugene was the Global Head of Strategic Messaging at BlackRock, the Head of Messaging and Content at PIMCO, and a marketing and communications consultant. He was also a reporter and editor at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal for about 15 years, based in New York and London.